searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update If your ancestor was a Girl Guide at any time since the inception of the movement in 1910, this book will enable you vividly to imagine what that experience would have been like. Cook skilfully interweaves Guiding... Continue Reading →
(The History Press) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard whilst his sons were clean-shaven? Should great-grandma really have married her cousin? Was great-aunt unusual to have several children in her 40s? Drawing on evidence from... Continue Reading →
(Hardback title, Pen and Sword, 2016)) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors... Continue Reading →
